{"id":439115,"date":"2010-03-17T13:27:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=14330"},"modified":"2010-03-17T13:27:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:27:28","slug":"french-game-show-%e2%80%98plays%e2%80%99-with-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/439115","title":{"rendered":"French Game Show \u2018Plays\u2019 With Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was meant to be about the manipulative power of authority, the control of television, and the twisted nature of reality shows.\u00a0 It was that and then some.<\/p>\n<p>Television producers in France mocked up a game show. Contestants were posed questions. If a contestant answered the question wrong, he or she would be commanded to throw a switch,\u00a0 zapping a fellow contestant (literally) on the hot seat.<\/p>\n<p>The victim in the hot seat appeared to get hit with up to 420 volts electricity.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=4112825&#038;w=400&#038;h=249\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/\">FoxNews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>All the while the audience shouted \u201cpunish them!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The contestants and audience are real. They think the game is real. But the fellow on that \u201chot seat\u201d is an actor faking it\u2026quite well. He sounds like he is close to the point of dying.<\/p>\n<p>While some of the contestants said &#8220;no,&#8221; that they would not electrocute the person in the hot seat, 82 percent contestants went along.<\/p>\n<p>The show&#8217;s producers defend the program, part of a documentary dubbed \u201cThe Game of Death.\u201d\u00a0 They note it\u2019s simply an update of a psychological experiment 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>But the French are taken aback.\u00a0 Top French commentator Christian Mallard told Fox it was \u201cstupid and crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>French newspapers dubbed it \u201cbothering\u201d and \u201cunethical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The program is actually running on French government-owned TV. \u00a0There\u2019s no word on what President Sarkozy might think about it.<\/p>\n<p>And while some have likened it to how people obeyed the Nazi\u2019s during World War 2, including some in France, there\u2019s been no comment about whether this is a particularly French response to potentially deadly commands.<\/p>\n<p>Arno Klarsfeld, son of noted Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, told Fox News, &#8220;It&#8217;s nothing new, the new generation forgets but the media is taking it up again. In a &#8216;basic&#8217; situation, humans can&#8217;t hold back their instincts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Most take it as a worrying statement for society today.\u00a0\u00a0 And maybe a good promotion for the television show Wednesday night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was meant to be about the manipulative power of authority, the control of television, and the twisted nature of reality shows.\u00a0 It was that and then some. Television producers in France mocked up a game show. Contestants were posed questions. If a contestant answered the question wrong, he or she would be commanded to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4512,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}